Invented Reckonings
Phantom Time
Illig’s fringe claim that 614–911 CE were forged (widely debunked)
Heribert Illig’s fringe, widely debunked 1991 claim that ~297 years of the Early Middle Ages (614–911 CE) were invented — which, if true, would take 297 years off every date since.
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In UTC at 02:02 on October 27, 2026, this calendar read 27 October 1729. The reading above is live, in your own time zone.
At a glance
- Type
- Solar — the Gregorian year less 297
- Origin
- Heribert Illig, 1991
- Counts from
- The Gregorian era, with 614–911 CE struck out
- Where it’s used
- A fringe hypothesis, rejected by historians and astronomers
- How it’s worked out here
- The Gregorian date, with 297 taken from the year
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